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Attacks prompt police warning Three incidents since Sept. 18, RCMP say
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Travis and Alicia Deaust (left) show off their baby daughter McKinley for the first time to next-door neighbours Tammy Brumwell and Anthony Malig, who helped deliver her in the Deausts’ driveway last month.
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A Burnaby couple wants to recognize their next-door neighbours for helping bring their baby girl into the world last month—in their driveway. Alicia Deaust, 34, called the NewsLeader with her story as a public thank you. Her husband Travis had taken a bottle of wine
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and a gift card to the neighbours, plenty of time. Anthony Malig and Tammy Travis took Kennedi to daycare Brumwell, but it just simply didn’t and by the time he returned, “I seem enough. was already in the It all started on washroom basically the morning of in full labour and Sept. 24, two days he was like, ‘Oh my alicia deaust before Alicia’s due god, what’s going I’m saying, ‘no, call 911, date. She’d sat down I’m having this baby here!’ on?’” to breakfast and He started started feeling lower back pain and grabbing things they needed and then the first contractions. pulled the car around, recruiting Their first child, daughter another neighbour, Doug Hilton, to Kennedi, had come after a 17-hour help carry out Alicia, whose water labour, so they figured they had had already broken by then.
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“By the time we got out to the car I was pulling my husband down to the ground, I was like, ‘I need to push!’ And Doug is just looking at me like, ‘Oh my god.’ My husband is calling our midwife saying meet us at the hospital and I’m saying, ‘no, call 911, I’m having this baby here!’” That’s when Anthony and Tammy appeared, drawn by the commotion. Turns out, Anthony, 39, is an emergency room nurse and Tammy, 42, is a social worker, both at Vancouver General Hospital. Please see ‘FOrget the scrIpt’, a3
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Burnaby RCMP are warning the public after three women were grabbed by a masked man in the Lougheed Highway and Government Street area. Three such assaults have been reported since Sept. 18 with all of them taking place between 10 p.m. and midnight. In each case, the women resisted or screamed, leading the suspect to run away. The suspect is described as five-footthree to five-foot nine inches tall, with a slim build and of unknown ethnicity. He was wearing dark clothing, possibly a hoodie, and a black mask covering his face. People are asked to be careful when walking in the area late at night with women encouraged to travel in pairs and always be aware of their surroundings. Anyone with any information about the incidents, or who have not yet reported similar assaults to police, is asked to call the Burnaby RCMP’s High Risk Offender Unit at 604-294-7922. twitter.com/Wandachow